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| Question | Answer |
| Define Metafiction, provide 2 examples (boy snow bird, true short story, ESoftheSM) | -opposite of mimesis -telling a story about a story -lends to the notion that we like to think about art reflecting life, but much of what we know we learned from art -instead of art reflecting reality, we try to make ourselves look like a picture Example 2: True Short Story: book as a prostitute - idea that is used to articulate what a prostitute is has very little to do with reality Example 3: Boy, Snow, Bird: if we don't see our reality in art, we change our reality to reflect art i.e. the two sisters in the mirror o Bird/Leah’s story: a beautiful house slave imitates and comes to resemble her mistress, so much so that when High John the Conqueror comes to free the plantation’s slaves, he cannot recognize her as one of his people. *Bird/Leah’s story condemns black people who pretend to be white people o Snow’s story: a beautiful woman tends a poisonous garden; her poison is unleashed onto the world when “somebody comes across a beautiful flower and picks it” (230). *Snow’s story condemns the way people value, covet, and |
| Define Intertextuality Boy Snow Bird | -text built out of other texts -text will refer to another text -text will change the way you think about the other text -like solving a puzzle set up like a riddle -"How is this book like Snow White?" o Boy’s sections: a powerful magician can make women beautiful or ugly; the woman begs to be left in peace, to be allowed to be happy. *Boy’s story is about happiness o Mia’s section: a farmer hires the magician because he is afraid of his beautiful wife and can’t control her; the beautiful woman is a “coat” for a snake. *Mia’s story is about control |
| Define Allusion | -passing reference to another text that you just are expected to recognize -illuminates something about the newer work |
| Define Mode (identify the four types of mode) | -close to genre -represents a general treatment of subject matter -how are we being told by elements in the story how to feel Tragic Mode • meant to celebrate courage and dignity in the face of failure and catastrophe • uplifting (Unconditional the movie) • supposed to learn something- reference to human failures Comedic Mode • meant to amuse us • draws attention to human failing and joy • usually lovers Romance Mode • meant to thrill • focuses on exciting adventures (Lord of the Rings) • tend to be long and episodic • protagonist is tested and usually finds faith and happiness ☺ Ironic Mode • meant to invite critique • encourages the recognition of human inconsistency • unsettle our expectation |
| Define Tone | -attitude toward subject or topic of a literary work i.e. approving, disapproving, ambivalent, mocking -how does it make the reader feel about the subject? -how is it portrayed Example: there are many different ways you can write about a child leaving home |
| Define Voice | -inside the text -characteristics of whatever the speaking voice is (the voice of the narrator) - |
| What are the three unities? Doll's House and Krapp's Last Tape | A) Time B) Space C) Action -idea that the action in a play should focus on a single plot, take place in a single day and in a single place -can't as your audience to believe too many things In comparison with the Doll's house, Krapp's last tape has an undetermined ending -the audience doesn't know whether the play is over, which creates tension -makes time seem uncomfortable -see huge life span in a play in a small amount of time -no notable turning point Krapp's den is the only space in the play -space makes us claustrophobic |
| What is a soliloquy? Talk about it's significance in Krapp's Last Tape | -Character thinking out loud Example: The entirety of Krapp's last tape is a soliloquy -There is a challenge to the way soliloquy is used; it is listening to soliloquies -Krapp can;t recognize himself from 30 years earlier -the play with soliloquy draws attention to the idea that people change over time |
| Define Monologue | one-sided conversation e.g. a sermon |
| What is the difference between a dramatic text and a performance text? | -a dramatic text is written -must infer the performance text -performance text is the thing that actually takes place -it is the event as imagined by the author -not a movie; not repeatable -what is this supposed to look like? |
| Discuss unity of time and plot in A Doll's House | Time -time is compressed and emphasized in the drama -in the Christmas season, significant that Torvald is getting a new job, which starts on new years day -focusing on the moment before the change -a long lost friend of horas shows up -she needs to be there for the plot to work; Ibsen uses her as a reason to talk about things of the past |
| Discuss impersonation in A Doll's House | Mrs. Linden: Have you ever found me romantic? *heroic qualities -Helmer has an incredibly aesthetic view of the world -Very concerned about upholding appearances -narcissistic, performance oriented (relate this to Bloodletting) *"He and his sufferings and his loneliness formed a sort of cloudy background to the sunshine of our happiness." |
| What is a paradox? What is a paradoxical statement from Krapp's Last Tape | self-contradictory -"The darkness at the end of the light makes him feel less alone" |
| Thematic Importance of the bananas in Krapp's Last Tape | -Him being constipated is a metaphor for how he holds on to things emotionally |
| Impersonation in Krapp's Last Tape | -Krapp is like a clown, entertaining in a strange way -Krapp is very serious, but appears to be very silly |
| Impersonation in Bloodletting | -The doctors are like cops- they call the shots, they hold authority, they sometimes get to decide who lives and who dies |
| Bodily imagery in Krapp's Last Tape- useful for Bloodletting | -"Nothing to say, not a squeak. What's a year now, the sour cud and the iron stool." -lends to the idea that we can't deny our bodies -we live with our bodies -they are inseparable from us -he is constipated, and his name is Krapp.. implies that our bodies and our voice are synonymous- our body is what we carry around with us, a part of who we are |
| Significance of the ball and the dog in Krapp's Last Tape | -ball is a representation of something you can hold on to (memories, soul, life) -he can't remember the black ball at 69 *he gave it away *was it his memory of his mother *whatever felt solid in that moment *gives it away to the life that the dog represents -does the whiteness of the dog have to do with anything? -black ball in contrast with white dog *Maybe it represents giving God the pain? |
| Define Historical Fiction Examples from Boy, Snow, Bird | -fiction set sometime in the past and which the historical setting is thematically important -allows readers to understand the idea of social progression and to be able to envision revolutionary change in present conditions -influences how people think about current events Example 1: "suppose you are born in the lower east side of manhattan in the year 193? You're all of fifteen and you're a jumpy kid" Example 2: Allusion to Emmett Till Example 3: Description of the way the bus system worked. You had to ask white women who sat down beside you if they wish you to move. |
| Define Magic Realism Examples from Boy, Snow, Bird | -fiction that includes both a realistic fiction and elements that seem fantastical (not in a spooky way) -often associated with metafiction and post-modernism -used to undermine our confidence in our perception of reality *suggest that sometimes we make assumptions about the world that may be unrealistic Example 1: "Sometimes mirrors can't find me. I'll go into a room with a mirror in it and look around and I'm not there" -inability for young black girl to see herself in art -art is a mirror, she doesn't fit into the culture Example 2: image of Snow and Bird in the mirror, with Snow's arm around bird -literalization of the power of goodness -the mirror tells them how culture says they should behave when sisters reunite |
| Define Dramatic Irony (Doll's House Example) (ESoftheSM example) | -reader feels more knowledgeable than the actors -Helmer talking about being uncomfortable around people who have committed forgery Example 2: Clem HAS gone out with someone who bought her a piece of jewellery that she liked. |
| Define Verbal Irony | -says one thing; means something else -sarcasm is an example of it -When Nora says "I am your squirrel, even though she doesn't mean it. -Because that's what he expects of her |
| Significance of Queer Studies in Boy, Snow, Bird | Magazine with the titles "are homosexuals becoming respectable? and end of the negro race by 1980 predicted by top scientist" -unsettling shift between the complex examination of race to the reductive examination of queer trauma reflect Oyeyemi's a) interest in the current movement for LGBQT movement and b) her criticism of the idea that we will ever stop talking about race |
| What are the 3 conventions of the romantic comedy? | 1) the plotting reflects the theme that "the course of true love never did run smooth" -always obstacles coming between the people getting together 2)Romantic comedies make a retreat to "green space" -a space where problems can be worked out i.e. a forest 3)At the end, couples return from the green space, and the ordinary world is resolved and the problems of love are resolved, usually in the form of marriage |
| Identify the Conventions of the romantic comedy ESoftheSm adheres to | 1) Difficulties within Joel and Clementine's relationship 2) Presents Joel's subconscious as a kind of green space 3) Happy ending does not exist, first they break up, odd reconciliation |
| Define Plot | -events as we see them |
| Events in story | chronological order |
| Explain the significance of Clementine's hair in the Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind | -represents the seasons of love -reinforces notion that identity is external -something we outgrow and change -the roots show through -is identity built through memory -hair dye draws attention to how we superficially make ourselves pretty |
| Explain how ESoftheSM is a metafiction | -they learn how to be and behave by experiencing art -artificiality of the romantic comedy -draws attention to the complexity of real stories- they don't move in one direction -focuses on how we make sense of things through association |
| Define Metonymy | -refers the use of a term or image with something it is closely associated -i.e. James bond; shaken not stirred Example: The image of Clementine's hair colour "Blue Ruin" is a metaphor because there is no explicit association between particular stage of Clementine and Joel's relationship; rather than the phrase "Blue Ruin" works as a vehicle that could be compared to the relationship -blue ruin also metonymic because it helps us place her on the plot |
| What is the avant-garde? | -self-conscious attempts to explore new forms and styles of writing in order to challenge established literary traditions -experimental artists who do something new -avant-garde is always happening, never lasts -new forms of literature, challenge the idea of what great books look like (the canon) Ex. E. E. Cummings -comes from military term; the troops that you send out first into battle before the the real army Ex. Benjamin Zephaniah's "Dis Poetry" |
| What kind of short story collection is Lam's Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures? | -sequence *not a rich cycle *unity in disunity- can be linked and also discontinuous |
| What is the paratextual information of Bloodletting and miraculous cures? | -doesn't say "and other stories" on the cover *wants to hide fact that it's a short story collection *emphasize the fact that it's closer to a novel -title refers to pre-modern medicine *reference to whole history of medicine *medicine seen as small parts of knowledge, acquired over time -all the doctors work in Toronto -Book includes glossary of terms *lends to notion that Vincent Lam is an insider -Vincent Lam is Dr. Vincent Lam -dealing with science; using an exclusive vocabulary, to prove that we are dealing with very educated people |
| Irony in Bloodletting and Miraculous cures- Code Clock | "This isn't practice Fitz" -it kind of is though Nora (I am your squirrel) How bodies speak (Krapp's Last Tape) Performance (Doll's House) |
| Define Binary Opposition | -human speech, organized into sets of mutually exclusive oppositions -such sets are hierarchal, whereby the first term is tacitly privileged and the second term is denigrated, considered to be inferior -has to be sense of unity between the terms |
| What literary feature does the following represent, "You're erasing her from me, you're erasing me from her!" | -metaphor |
| What literary feature does the following suggest, "Could that bracelet scream wicked stepmother any louder?" | -personification |
| what literary feature does the following represent? "Perfect ending to this POP story" | paradox (perfect, POP), storytelling, performance |
| What literary features does "Dis Poetry" show? | metafiction (what poetry does), metaphor personification - this poetry is not afraid of going in a book |
| Binary Opposition in Code Clock | "We could pace him" "To try" "This isn't practice, Fitz." -idea of performance (performing challenge to authority) (is performance learned?) -Related to Doll's House -Nigel's shrug, disconnect between his actions and his words |
| Binary Opposition (Eli) health/sickness | We feel virtuous about our desire to care for the sick, while remaining healthy ourselves -we have expectations for our patients -that they be quiet and polite -cultural view of how sickness should look -if sickness breaks a rule, we care less i.e. what if it were a child |
| Binary Opposition Eli quiet/screaming | 1) quiet is privileged because.. it represents a) order b) obedience c)health d) public space 2) quiet depends on loudness because being able to control the noise imparts authority - we are more okay with people abusing their power in favour of supporting the privileged term 3)it is privileged because it ensures cultural power dynamics in hierarchal order THESIS - a deconstruction of the way the binary opposition quiet/screaming is represented in Lam's short story Eli, reveals the text's concern with the way cultural perception of systems such as medical practice and law enforcement contribute to the marginalization of those who seek to complain about justice. |
| Representation of body | -both dead and live bodies speak and communicate -collision between the demands of the live and dead body -doctors are also bodies (Fitz needs to use the washroom) -He wants to make the story (we did everything we could) more honest -body has to beat the clock -issue of time and time's passage is marked a lot in this book • “’Walk briskly, don’t rush,’ says Nigel. ‘My rule is when you come into a code, your hear can’t be faster than the clock” (90) -importance of controlling your body -in order to be productive in the medical profession, the bodies need to be functioning properly -body tells the truth whereas language can be a lie (i.e. Marcia saying she saw the patient ten minutes before is untrue) |
| Exploration of the idea of uncertainty in Bloodletting | -idea of endings is artificial -see different events through several perspectives -death is insignificant in the book; so insignificant that we don't even mention it.. i.e. Fitz -confronts expectations of death and endings |
| Bloodletting as a metafictional work | -"putting things into manageable packages" *knowledge is something you can own, but does not change us *we can have control over it, but it makes no difference *purpose of knowledge is for it to be performed *Lam wants to explore how we create language and glossaries as a way to define ourselves |
| Afterwards related to endings | 'Beginning to tell it, Sri felt calm. ‘They transported him here. We began to resuscitate him immediately. His heart had stropped beating. We did everything we could.’ That last phrase felt like a soap opera, but these words always came out of Sri’s mouth. To talk like this creates a delay, but there’s a story to tell. Tell them the story. The story needs to come before the ending so that it makes sense looking back” (191) -In order for an ending to be appropriately meaningful, there has to be a story to precede it -book undermines our sense of ending by not telling us -highlights imperfections of language, and how other people hear what they want to hear, no matter how we say it |
| Embedded narratives in Boy Snow Bird | love notes Boy writes -Boy and Charlie's letters -Mia's article about blondes -Snow and Bird's letters -Bird's Interview with Frank/Francis novak -Gerald and John's story of Emmett Till |
| Define Concrete Poetry | -subgenre of avant-garde writing outgrowth of older types of shaped verse -draws attention to visible text as an object Example: E. E. Cummings' r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r |
| Define Eco-poetry | -poetry specifically focused on the matter of the environment -make links between the poem as an artificial object and the crisis of environmental destruction exposes how we become comfortable with the unnatural Ex. jellypo fishtato |
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